shpilkis

Thank god for urban dictionary, I love hitting the random button over and over again. It is more entertaining to me lately because I think my brain is short circuiting and can no longer think or write.

Here is my random word today, and growing up in a typical Jewish family, I love this word. But the even more entertaining part is that I was actually accused of overextending my shpilkis-like personality today without using this word. But I for sure will correct them tomorrow and tell them this is the word they should have used, its in the urban dictionary after all!

shpilkis

{Transliteration from the original Yiddish}
Noun: To 'bounce off the walls', nervous energy without purpose. In English - to be 'on pins and needles'. Common in kids when they have had too much sugar, or adults too much caffeine {or any combination of same}. Kids with ADD or ADHD before they are medicated.
"Oy, you kids in the back seat! Enough with the shpilkis already, or I'm gonna turn around this car around, right now!""
Check out the cat, she got into the catnip. Such shpilkis I have never seen!"